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A fact on expression: sheep do use hoofs in fighting.
Requests litmus paper and gum.
Thanks for reference to Hermann Müller’s book on fertilisation [Befruchtung der Blumen (1873)].
Collecting information about antecedents of eminent men of science. Sends questionnaire.
Publisher [Schweizerbart] has seen CD’s new book advertised [Cross and self-fertilisation] and wishes to publish a German translation of it.
Missed hostile review of Expression in Edinburgh Review. Agrees it might be by J. H. Stirling [see 8935], who has written in a deplorably polemical style on Huxley and Sir William Hamilton.
Asks whether, in Italy, varieties of Lathyrus odoratus, Pisum sativum, and Phaseolus multiflorus must be grown separately to come true.
Thanks correspondent for sending him an account of silkworms.
Hopes JT does not think him over-cautious in requesting the return of the copies [of Huxley’s letter]. Has sent Huxley a list of the subscribers.
Suggests hopping lizards may show the connection between reptiles and birds as proposed by Huxley.
Hopes affairs will enable him to get back to flowers.
Huxley’s letter [about the fund raised for him] was noble. Would like to have seen CD’s to him.